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01 Albuquerque Tricentennial Exhibit Logo
The logo for the Albuquerque Tricentennial Exhibit: 300 Years of History from the Center for Southwest Research, March through August, 2006.
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02 Albuquerque Flag
City flag, courtesy of Daniel Jiron, Aviation Department, City of Albuquerque. Flag of Albuquerque honors the 1706 Spanish founders of the city; the Pueblo bird represents progress and the future.
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03 Exhibit Curator
Curator of exhibit, Nancy Brown-Martinez (right), with Audra Bellmore, Curator of Southwest Architecture -- both from the Center for Southwest Research (CSWR).
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04 Grinnell Painting
"Albuquerque in 1795," a 1993 painting by Roy Grinnell, from City Council-County Commission Chamber. From insurance coverage slide, courtesy City of Albuquerque.
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05 East Gallery View
East Gallery view -- features the early history of Albuquerque, 1700s to 1880s.
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07 Alcalde Mayor Display
This display honors the first Spanish Alcalde Mayor (high mayor) of Albuquerque -- Martin Hurtado (founding of Albuquerque, 1706). In 1706, after consulting the nearby Pueblos, Captain Martin Hurtado and Spanish settlers from the North established the Spanish Villa of Albuquerque, on vacant land in what is now known as Old Town. Hurtado, the Alcalde Mayor (the High Mayor) of the Villa, is drawing out with his lance the lines for the plaza and lots of the new town. The new royal City was intended to be the governing, defensive, economic, transportation, cultural and spiritual center of the Rio Abajo or Lower River region - and so it became and continues to be. 8. Don Martin Hurtado’s parents came to NM from Zacatecas in the 1660s. After surviving the 1680 Pueblo Revolt, he and some of his family went to El Paso. In 1692, while reconnoitering NM with Captain Gen. Diego de Vargas, Martin rescued his widowed sister Juana and her three children at Zuni. She had been taken captive by the Pueblos during the Revolt. Martin and some of his relatives returned to NM with the 1693 Resettlement. He was entrusted with establishing the new Villa of because of his outstanding service record.
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08 Martin Hurtado
Martin Hurtado, statue by Bruce Pappito, Las Cruces. Hurtado is shown drawing out the boundaries of the new town with his lance.
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09 Frontier Soldier Re-Enactor
Roberto Valdez, re-enactor, in the uniform of a frontier soldier like those worn at the Albuquerque Presidio in the 1700s. Courtesy Roberto Valdez, from Espanola, NM.
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10 Founders' Day Re-Enactors
Albuquerque 2005 Founders' Day re-enactors, from New Mexico Hispanic Culture Preservation League.
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11 1806 Governor's Arrest Order for Zebulon Pike
Excerpt of a Spanish letter from Governor of NM, Don Joaquin Real Alencaster, instructing his tenientes (lieutenants) of presidio scouting parties to watch for the Paike (Zebulon Pike) Expedition, verify his reason for being in Spanish territory, and invite him and a few of his men to visit the Governor in Santa Fe, from Spanish Archives of NM II, No. 2049, NM State Records Center and Archives, Santa Fe.
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12 Sketch of Albuquerque 1853
Sketch 1853 - Old Albuquerque and Sandia Mountains, by Albert H. Campbell. San Felipe Church on far left and army tent on far right. The long buildings with arched portales (doorways) are warehouses of the Quartermaster at Albuquerque U.S. Army Post, from Reports … [Survey] for a Railroad from the Mississippi to the Pacific, Secr. of War, 1853-1856, headed by Lt. A. W. Whipple, Topogr. Engineers, Vol. 3, CSWR.
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13 Albuquerque U.S. Army Post
Plan - Quartermaster Commissary warehouses and offices of the Albuquerque U.S. Army Post (Old Town) sent to Washington, D.C. by Col. Enos, Post Asst. Qrtm., 1866, from National Archives, Wash., D.C., copies in SW Architecture Archive, CSWR.
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14 Los Griegos in 1800s
Photo 1883 - Los Griegos, plaza in North Valley, community established on land granted by Spain to Juan Griego about 1708, two years after the founding of the Villa de Albuquerque. Many families named Griego lived there and hence the name. From Cobb Memorial Collection, CSWR.
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15 Henry Jaffa
Photo ca. 1885 - Henry Nathan Jaffa, first Mayor of New Albuquerque. A Jewish German immigrant, arrived in 1884, merchant, President of the Board of Trade that won incorporation for the town in 1885. Running on the People’s Ticket, was elected mayor in 1885. He and Town Trustees faced chronic gambling, lynchings, shootouts, opium dens and brothels, as well as need for streets, sewers, water system, new bridge, electric and gas utilities, and police and fire departments - and had a budget surplus after their term ended. From Cobb Memorial Collection, CSWR.
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16 Perfecto Armijo
Photo ca. 1890 - Sheriff Perfecto Armijo, his family and Anglo-American friends on a picnic in Bear Canyon in Sandia Mountains. Mrs. Anita Armijo (left), Mrs. Hall (center), Dr. John S. Easterday, R. P. Hall (right) and children. Many early Easterners learned to speak Spanish and honored local Hispanic traditions. Armijo was the well-respected, three-term elected Sheriff of Bernalillo County and Old Albuquerque. He and his deputies policed rowdy New Albuquerque until a town merchant police force was organized there. Armijo family had been leading citizens of NM for centuries. From Cobb Memorial Collection, CSWR.
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17 New Town Scene in 1890s
Photo ca. 1880s - New Albuquerque, children on the burro are named on a little card in the Collection. Notice the Wells Fargo & Company wagon on the left. From William A. Keleher Collection, CSWR.
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18 Congregation Albert Founding
Photo 1899 - Laying corner stone for Congregation Albert, at Seventh and Gold Avenue, notice group of musicians on the left. Henry Nathan Jaffa, first Mayor of New Town, was president of the Jewish congregation of 50 families when the synagogue was dedicated in 1900. From Cobb Memorial Collection, CSWR.
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19 Albuquerque Indian School Football Team
Photo ca. 1900 - Albuquerque Indian School football team. From Cobb Memorial Collection, CSWR.
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20 West Gallery View
West Gallery view -- features the history of the city from the 1890s to the 1960s.
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21 KiMo Theater Model
Model of Kimo Theater built by Harvey Hoshour and Dan Pearson during their renovation, 1979-1981. From Harvey Hoshour Collection, CSWR.
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22 Elfego Baca
Photo - Elfego Baca, age 19, Deputy Sheriff of Socorro County, held off a mob of Texas cowboys at San Francisco, Reserve, west of Socorro, attacking him for arresting one of their drunken fellows for shooting up the town and disturbing its citizens. Baca was an attorney, school superintendent, mayor and district attorney in Socorro, legal counsel to Mexico, candidate for U.S. Senator and NM Governor, and owned and edited several popular newspapers. He always defended the underdog and wanted Anglos to respect New Mexicans as equals and give them the same chances and benefits they gave their fellow Easterners.
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24 South Gallery View
View of exhibit South wall, local scholars looking at map of Albuquerque, U.S. Geological Survey 1934, 1938 edition. From Maps and Geographic Information Center (MAGIC), Centennial Science and Engineering Library, UNM.
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25 Meem Southern Union Gas Building
Southern Union Gas Company, Albuquerque - designed by John Gaw Meem, perspective and interior photos, from J. G. Meem Collection, CSWR. Photos of Flying Star Café in renovated gas building courtesy of Jay Rembe.
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26 Meem Gas Building and Neighborhood
Photo of homes along Silver and Eighth S.E. before being torn down for Southern Union Gas Company building, designed by Meem. From J.G. Meem Collection, CSWR.
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27 Ellen Evans Colburn
Ellen Evans Colburn, CSWR Graduate Architecture Fellow, with architecture displays she researched and prepared.
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28 Occidental Life Insurance Model
Model - Occidental Insurance Company / New Mexico Title Company, located at Third and Gold S.W. The Occidental was constructed in 1917 by Charles Henry Trost, modeled after the ornate 1438 Doge’s Palace in Venice, Italy. After a fire in 1933, Miles Brittelle, Sr. remodeled it for the insurance form. In the early 1980s, Harvey Hoshour and Dan Pearson renovated it for the NM Mexico Title Company, restoring it to the way it was in 1917. From Harvey Hoshour Collection CSWR.
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29 North Gallery View
Albuquerque: Then and Now. Tingley Beach, constructed in 1933-1934 on sparsely settled West side of Old Town, funded by the Civil Works Adm., New Deal, from cover of Pictorial Albuquerque, 1930s, by Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce, in Albuquerque and NM Pamphlet Collection, CSWR. Tingley Beach 2006. Electric street car, ca. 1924-1928, view to West, at corner of Central and First, from Cobb Memorial Collection, CSWR. Rapid Ride Bus, 2005, courtesy of John Cordova, Alvarado Transportation Center, City of Albuquerque Locomotive, ca. 1890-1899, stopped in front of railroad station, the switch tower and the European Hotel, at the corner of Railroad Avenue (Central) and First, from Cobb Memorial Collection, CSWR. NM Rail Runner, courtesy of Tony Sylvester, Mid-Region Council of Governors and the NM Department of Transportation, 2005. Alvarado Hotel, 1903, from calendar in Bainbridge Bunting Collection, CSWR. Hotel was center of life in downtown Albuquerque for many decades. People cried when it was torn down in 1970. Alvarado Transportation Center, 2005, courtesy of John Cordova, Alvarado Transportation Center, City of Albuquerque
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32 Movie Cover
Display on movie, Lonely Are the Brave, starring Kirk Douglas and based on the novel, The Brave Cowboy, by Edward Abbey, includes poster from original pressman’s kit, Film Poster Collection, CSWR. Photos of cast and crew on location in Sandia Mountains, from Mildred Tolbert Collection CSWR. Photo of Abbey, from Writers of the Southwest Collection, CSWR and excerpts from the novel, CSWR.
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33 Ramona Kaplan
Ramona Kaplan, CSWR Anderson Reference Fellow, with movie displays she researched and prepared.
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34 Albuquerque Movie Posters
Posters from the movie, Albuquerque, 1948, a Western set in the frontier town of Albuquerque in the late 1800s, based on Luke Short's novel Dead Freight for Piute. Randolph Scott portrays the hero Cole Armin, with George “Gabby” Hayes as Cole’s colorful sidekick and Lon Chaney, Jr., as the villain Juke Murkilous. From Film Poster Collection, CSWR.
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35 Sidney Gutierrez
Col. Sidney Gutierrez, Albuquerque Astronaut - in 1991 piloted the space shuttle Columbia on a nine-day voyage studying biological effects of space travel. In 1994 commanded the Endeavour, Space Radar Laboratory, part of Mission to Planet Earth. Gutierrez was first Hispanic to pilot and command a space mission. He graduated from Albuquerque’s Valley High School, attended the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, and received his MA in Management from Webster College. He also served in the Air Force as instructor, fighter and test pilot. Today he is a Director at Sandia Labs. Photo courtesy of Sidney Gutierrez.
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36 Songs of Albuquerque
Songs of Albuquerque display, included recording and background information for the song Albuquerque, by Eddie Gallegos, 1952, from John Donald Robb Collection, CSWR. Albuquerque, 1964, by Vicente Saucedo, from J.D. Robb Collection, CSWR. A-L-B-U-Q-U-E-R-Q-U-E, 2003, by The Curio Cowboys, from album Duke City Swing, lyrics by Herb Hendler, music by Ralph Flanagan, courtesy of John Feldman, Director, UNM School of Law Career Services - a member of the group. The Lights of Albuquerque, from album Man In The Mirror, 1985, SONY, composed by Bob McDill and Dickey Lee, sung by Jim Glaser. Albuquerque, from album Running with Scissors, 1999, Volcano Entertainment, by Weird Al Yankovic Cruzin’ Central, from album South Broadway, Broadway Del Sur, 2000, Encanto Music Prods., composer and singer Freddie Chavez. Albuquerque, from album La Mejor Musica de NM, 2001, Red Hot Records, arranged by Michael Eloy Sanchez, composed by Robert Brown and sung by Eva Torrez and The Cast. Albuquerque, from album Thirst, 1998-2005, Buck Young Music, composer and singer Tom Ross - was gift to City of Albuquerque for official Tricentennial song, courtesy of Tom Ross.
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37 Katherine McCully
Katherine McCully, CSWR undergraduate worker, who researched and prepared the songs display.
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38 Exhibit Curator
Nancy Brown-Martinez, exhibit curator, opening the March 3 program on the music of Albuquerque.
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39 Enrique Lamadrid
Dr. Enrique Lamadrid, Hispano/Chicano Studies, UNM, speaking on Albuquerque music from Spanish days to present.
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40 John Feldman and Stan Burg
John Feldman and Stan Burg of the Curio Cowboys, performing at the March 3 program.
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41 David Garcia and C.J. Martinez
David Garcia and C.J. Martinez, UNM students, playing at the March 3 program
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42 Albuquerque Postcard and Sketch
CSWR entry foyer, postcard - Route 66 Anniversary, by Daniel Martinez, NM Department of Tourism, Postcard Collection, CSWR. Sketch of Old Town. From Whipple Report, CSWR.
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43 Highways 66 and 85
Albuquerque Crossroads decal, from Ward Hicks Collection, CSWR. UNM Albuquerque Tricentennial Banner, courtesy of Eleanor V. Sanchez, UNM Welcome Center, Marketing.
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44 Route 66 Neon Sign
Transparency of a photo with automobile and Route 66 sign, courtesy of David Kammer.
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45 NM National Guard on Campus
UNM demonstration, 1970, students and National Guard troops on campus, looking South, University College on the left and Popejoy Hall on the right. Newspaper cover photo, Albuquerque Journal, June 21, 1970. From Gloria Montoya Chavez Collection, CSWR.
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46 Wrong Turn at Albuquerque
This joke by Bugs Bunny appears in the 1953 Merrie Melodies cartoon, Bully for Bugs, directed by Chuck Jones. On the way to the Coachella Carrot Festival, Bugs takes a wrong turn at Albuquerque and finds himself in the middle of a bull fight in Mexico. Image, Looney Tunes, Warner Brothers.
These are selected images from the Center for Southwest Research exhibit, which was on display from March through August of 2006 in the Waters Room of Zimmerman Library. The exhibit featured materials from the CSWR collection and was curated by Nancy Brown-Martinez. Audio and video from the exhibit event is available here.
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